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There were just eight wheelchair racers in four divisions in Sunday’s Vancouver Sun 10K, but the post-race stories once again showed it’s quality not quantity when it comes to those in the rolling wheels game. To wit:

VICTORIA — Premier Christy Clark’s once-promising relationship with the building trades has frayed, to judge from the legal challenge the construction unions filed Monday against BC Hydro’s Site C project. The B.C. Supreme Court action accuses the government-owned utility of trampling the constitutional rights of construction workers in its approach to building the $8.8-billion hydroelectric project at Site C on the Peace River.

It’s not that Shawn Matthias didn’t believe Jim Benning specifically when told by a reporter an hour before Monday’s trade deadline that the winger could relax because the Vancouver Canucks’ general manager liked his team and wasn’t trading anyone off the roster. Matthias simply wouldn’t trust any National Hockey League manager on deadline day.

In a transit referendum battle pitting the Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s local representative against a Goliath of political, business and union advocates for the Yes side, Jordan Bateman is the guy with the slingshot.

The Surrey couple accused of the foiled 2013 Canada Day terror plot bickered about everything from their drug addictions to whether Islamic law permitted trimming body hair. As they stuffed pressure cookers with rusty nails and shrapnel, John Nuttall occasionally harangued his wife Amanda Korody a bit too much, causing her to snap: “You are being a nuisance!”